To the destruction of what is. London, 1886: Adolf Verloc, by day he is a small shop owner who lives uneventfully with his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law. By night, he is an agent provocateur. The unnamed country in which employs his clandestine life has found his service record to be lacking, and in order to redeem himself, they offer him a new and dangerous mission. One of terrorist machinations, this new mission finds Adolf convincing a group of local Anarchists to detonate a bomb at the Greenwich ...
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To the destruction of what is. London, 1886: Adolf Verloc, by day he is a small shop owner who lives uneventfully with his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law. By night, he is an agent provocateur. The unnamed country in which employs his clandestine life has found his service record to be lacking, and in order to redeem himself, they offer him a new and dangerous mission. One of terrorist machinations, this new mission finds Adolf convincing a group of local Anarchists to detonate a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory.
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This is an excellent novel. Unfortunately, after I ordered it, the seller discovered that he or she did not have the copy I ordered. Hence, I never saw the Folio Society edition, the one I wished for.
JBronson
May 8, 2007
The many reverberations of accidents
Another superbly written book from an author whose native language is not English. Here, ineptness has far-reaching consequences.